From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 05:11:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA27928 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA27911 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA07240; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:03:34 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tksSg-000I7qC; Fri, 9 Feb 96 14:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0tksOm-000010C; Fri, 9 Feb 96 13:58 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:58:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: ulf@z-code.ncd.com, terry@lambert.org, gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, bertus%mikom.csir.co.za@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com, questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: <199602090113.SAA09074@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 8, 96 06:13:17 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Terry Lambert: > For reasonable connectivity (ie: online all the time, but not necessarily > pounding out the packets all the time), ISDN is simply unusable. Terry, this might be true in the US but not in Germany (or perhaps Europe). An ISDN line costs here slightly more than 2 analog phone lines (will be the same in this summer) and you are charged exactly the same rates as on an analog telephone line. For an anlog line you are charged ~30.00 DM and for an ISDN line ~65.00 DM (will go down to ~50.00 DM); a so called "unit" costs 0.12 DM and gives you 1.5 Minutes time on peak hours and 4 Minutes between 2 and 5 in the morning for local calls. And yes, i'm online all the time (outbound ip packets just connect, inbound packets will place a [not charged] "ring" to my side and i'll call back to my provider). Leased lines are so expensive, that there is no need to call for a quote. For reasonable one-person/small-group municipal area connectivity in Germany, ISDN is a very good choice. In case you want to be charged a flat rate, there is a service called D64S available (giving you just a 64kbit channel but open all the time), which costs between 2 endpoints in the municipal area 400.00 ... 800.00 DM (depending <15km and >15km distance) a month. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?